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Netherlands
America's Best Architecture & Design Schools 2007 (Design Intelligence)
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James P. Cramer (Editor)
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Greenway Communications (Editor)
An invaluable resource for prospective students searching for the right school: America's Best Architecture & Design Schools. This eighth annual survey is the definitive guide to design education and includes invaluable information on Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Interior Design, and Industrial Design programs across the nation.
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Netherlands
London: A Guide to Recent Architecture (Fifth Edition)
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Samantha Hardingham (Author)
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Keith Collie (Photographer)
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Ellipsis Arts (Editor)
As ever, the development of the city's economic, political and cultural life can be read in the new buildings going up all over the capital. After the excitement and farce of London's millennium buildings (The London Eye, Peckham Library and the Tate Modern on the one hand; the Dome and the infamous swaying Thames footbridge on the other), our rulers have built themselves one of the world's most lavish office blocks; two new skyscrapers are nearing completion at Canary Wharf?once among the capital's most derided properties, now an astonishingly desirable address; industrial buildings are renovated to house new-media firms and the people who own or work in them; and occasionally funding is found for a school or public leisure facility. This fifth edition of London: A Guide to Recent Architecture brings the picture up to date. 150 b/w photographs.
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Switzerland
Architecture in the Netherlands: Yearbook 2000-2001
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NAI Publishers (Author)
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Netherlands Architecture Institute (Compiler)
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NAi Publishers (Editor)
The important annual Architecture in the Netherlands once again documents a selection of the most notable recent architecture in Holland. This year, the editors highlight a number of new trends, subjecting them to in-depth analysis along with extensive illustrative documentation.
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United Kingdom
Matière d'art / A Matter of Art: Architecture contemporaine en Suisse / Contemporary Architecture in Switzerland
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Paris Centre Culturel Suisse (Editor)
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Birkhäuser Basel (Editor)
Contemporary Swiss Architecture has gained considerable international reputation with stars such as Mario Botta, Herzog & de Meuron and Peter Zumthor being celebrated throughout the world. This book reviews the current architectural scene in Switzerland, analysing it from three contrasting perspectives. Examined are 18 individual buildings that are considered representative of the high quality of contemporary Swiss architecture. Subsequently, six chapters focus on specific features which are characteristic of this architecture. Concluding the volume are five essays by Joseph Abram, Jacques Lucan, Bruno Marchand, Stanislaus von Moos and Martin Steinmann, each providing illuminating analyses and setting the present-day situation in a historical context.
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United States
Architecture in the Netherlands (Architecture (Taschen))
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Philip Jodidio (Author)
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Taschen (Editor)
TASCHEN?s new architecture series brings a unique perspective to world architecture, highlighting architectural trends by country. Each book features 15 to 20 architects?from the firmly established to the up-and-coming?with the focus on how they have contributed to very recent architecture in the chosen nation. Entries include contact information and short biographies in addition to copiously illustrated descriptions of the architects? or firms? most significant recent projects. Crossing the globe from country to country, this new series celebrates the richly hued architectural personality of each nation featured.
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United States
Atomic Home: A Guided Tour of the American Dream
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Whitney Matheson (Author)
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Collectors Press (Editor)
From the glory days of linoleum and wood paneling to innovations in dishwashers, ovens, and washing machines, ATOMIC HOME: A GUIDED TOUR OF THE AMERICAN DREAM remembers the fads, fashions, and inventions of the postwar American dream home. With the war over, soldiers returned home to an unprecedented time of prosperity; the family home, with its white picket fence, became the status quo. Suburbs boomed and keeping up with the Joneses became a way of life for wives and weekend home-improvement warriors. Brimming with vintage illustrated advertisements depicting the "latest" in furniture, bathroom designs, and much more, ATOMIC HOME offers cultural commentary and design inspirations for an era that defined the modern family dwelling.
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United States
SuperDutch : New Architecture in the Netherlands
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Bart Lootsma (Author)
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Princeton Architectural Press (Editor)
Propelled into the limelight by the success of Rem Koolhaas, Dutch architecture is achieving popularity and influence across the globe. Fostered by a cultural interest in architecture (and a government willing to support it), the Netherlands is producing a generation of architects whose work is characterized by inventiveness, whimsy, creative use of materials, and dynamic formal experimentation. Koolhaas and a subsequent generation of Dutch designers routinely get the most sought-after commissions and are among the most widely published in the world. This small yet extremely influential handful of practitioners is shaping the future direction of architecture.?A phone-book-size collection, SuperDutch features all of the key figures in Dutch architecture today. Their work is presented through detailed drawings and stunning photography.
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United States
Blueprints for Modern Living: History and Legacy of the Case Study Houses
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Elizabeth A. T. Smith (Editor)
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The MIT Press (Editor)
Winner of the 1999 Philip Johnson Award presented by the Society of Architectural Historians. essays by Reyner Banham, Dolores Hayden, Thomas Hine, Thomas S. Hines, Esther McCoy, Helen Searing, Elizabeth A. T. Smith, and Kevin Starr
One of Southern California's most significant contributions to modern architecture was the Case Study House program sponsored by John Entenza's Art & Architecture magazine. Between 1945 and 1966, thirty-six experimental prototypes were designed and the majority built. Featuring some of the most important architects of the region and generation--including Charles Eames, Craig Ellwood, A. Quincy Jones, Pierre Koenig, Richard Neutra, and Raphael Soriano--the program reflected the modernist goal of reinventing the house as a way of redefining living. A number of the essayists in the book suggest that what made the houses distinctive and influential was not so much their International Style modernism as how that style was domesticated and scaled to the single-family house. . . and how it forecast what came to be known as the California lifestyle.
In addition to the eight main essays, the book, which was based on a 1989-1990 exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Los Angeles, contains entries by the exhibition curator, Elizabeth A. T. Smith, and research assistant Amelia Jones on the thirty-six Case Study projects, documentation of six projects commissioned by MOCA, biographies of the thirty architects involved in the program, and a wealth of photographs, drawings, plans, and scale models.
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United States
Nederlandse Architecten/Dutch Architects
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Bis (Editor)
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BIS (Holland) (Editor)
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